Help needed with some internal parasite problem

IMCL85 · Post by **IMCL85** » 15 Nov 2005, 02:13

Hi all, recently I have set up a 150g tank for my fellow loaches. And I bought some clown form my LFS and in a quantine period in one of my 20g cory tank. My problem comes with that some of these clown loaches have internal parasite which make them skinny. And I need to treat them either levamisole or metronidazole, I cant seem to get hold on levamisole as I cant seem to travel out town to feed store or farm to get them. So I have to stick with metron. I have this hole n head guard form jungle lab from last treatment on one of my sevy tank. This HITH medicine contain metronidazole, sodium chloride and acriflavine. I was wondering if I use these power to mix in the bloodwarm I use to feed my loaches and cory would the sodium chloride(salt) inside this medicine harm the cory and loaches. If no how much should I use to mix in the blood warm?

Thx for looking
Jack

venwu225 · Post by **venwu225** » 15 Nov 2005, 09:11

How do you know they have internal parasites for sure? Did you microscopically examine the fecal matter of the fish to look for evidence of parasitic infections?

IMCL85 · Post by **IMCL85** » 15 Nov 2005, 14:44

This is from my past experiance on clown loaches. Clown comes with internal parasite will looks skinny the bones on its back will show up with dark coloration. I have this kind of problem back in old day when I kept them. And they eventurally waste away even they were eating.